Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51029 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tailourTailor

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 30 times in 17 works
Consistency: 93.7% (30 of 32)
Reach if approved: ~34 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tailor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 32 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (30 changes in 17 works, 93.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 30)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… growes vntill it be perfect, the builder buildes till it bee an houſe: The TailourTailor ſoweth till it be a garment: The painter paints till it be a picture …
With rule
… growes vntill it be perfect, the builder buildes till it bee an houſe: The TailourTailor ſoweth till it be a garment: The painter paints till it be a picture …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 932 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſure if a ſmith, Pewterer, or Ioyner, if he haue to do with a TailourTailor, he will looke to haue all his cloth put into his garment, or elſe …
With rule
… ſure if a ſmith, Pewterer, or Ioyner, if he haue to do with a TailourTailor, he will looke to haue all his cloth put into his garment, or elſe …
Thomas Wilson · Sermon 13 August 1610 · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… about one of the clocke at after noone, but before he ſpake to Maiſter, TailourTailor: I was called forth vnto him: when he ſawe me, of went hys cappe …
With rule
… about one of the clocke at after noone, but before he ſpake to Maiſter, TailourTailor: I was called forth vnto him: when he ſawe me, of went hys cappe …
John Bradford · All the Examinations of the Martyr John Bradford · Open in the reader
Printed
… the advice of his three Counsellors, Iohn Heron a bankrupt Mercer, Richard Skelton a TailourTailor, and Iohn Astley a Scrivener, determined to attempt first the winning of Exceter; which …
With rule
… the advice of his three Counsellors, Iohn Heron a bankrupt Mercer, Richard Skelton a TailourTailor, and Iohn Astley a Scrivener, determined to attempt first the winning of Exceter; which …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
John TailourTailor, Bishop of Lincoln,
With rule
John TailourTailor, Bishop of Lincoln,
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thirdly, the Devill might carry Christs body really through the aire, Piscator, Perkins, Dike, TailourTailor. In the fifth verse the words following confirme the reall transportation, for it is …
With rule
… Thirdly, the Devill might carry Christs body really through the aire, Piscator, Perkins, Dike, TailourTailor. In the fifth verse the words following confirme the reall transportation, for it is …
Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pursued, will not alter his gate, they say, though he die for it. Doctour TailourTailor, Martyr, when being sent for by Steven Gardiner, his friends perswaded him not to …
With rule
… pursued, will not alter his gate, they say, though he die for it. Doctour TailourTailor, Martyr, when being sent for by Steven Gardiner, his friends perswaded him not to …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bishop of S. Dauides, Hooper the Bishop of Worcester, Rogers tuus olim comprebendarius. D. TailourTailor of Hadley, M. Sanders, and one Tomkins a weauer, and now this last day …
With rule
… Bishop of S. Dauides, Hooper the Bishop of Worcester, Rogers tuus olim comprebendarius. D. TailourTailor of Hadley, M. Sanders, and one Tomkins a weauer, and now this last day …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1729 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.